Fibromyalgia, dietary carbohydrates, and Corvalen,

Question
 hi Dr. Zilberter!  i have a question. if you are a woman age 50, and fairly active, who has fibromyalgia, how much carbohydrate intake would be considered very good?  my girlfriend has this, and she was taking corvalen m; only today i find out that it has only 1 carbohydrate; rather not much for 70 dollars a jar!  so, how much carbodrates would be good for her more energy?  and in what form do you think the carbohydrates should be taken?  she has major problems with no energy, so thats why i ask. thank you!!

Answer
Hi James,

Basing on my own and my client experience, I would rather say carbohydrates are not quite welcomed in the case of fibromyalgia.. D-Ribose (active ingredient in Corvalen) indeed is shown to improve cardiac and skeletal muscle's performance but not because of carbohydrates. It works helping the cellular energy stations in mitochondria that indeed can be involved in glucose metabolism however not as a substrate (carbs) but as a regulator.

As to carbohydrate requirement, there's no such thing because the body can do almost completely without. Reducing carb intake improves many health condition including fybromyalgia, neuronal hyperactivity, Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases, AND mitochondriasis -- a disease of the cellular energy station I've mentioned above.

Hope it helps,

= TZ

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